Sarah Perry in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson

Melmoth, Sarah Perry’s follow-up to her wildly-successful historical novel, The Essex Serpent, promises to be one of the most talked-about books of 2018. Helen Franklin is assailed with guilt for past misdeeds but her sheltered life is upended when a strange manuscript comes into her possession. Filled with testimonies from the darkest chapters of human history, it records sightings of a tall, silent woman in black - Melmoth, the loneliest being in the world. Everyone that Melmoth seeks out must make a choice: to live with what they’ve done, or be led into the darkness. As her past finally catches up with her, Helen too must choose which path to take.

Recorded at The Studio, dlr LexIcon, on 21 November 2018 as part of Library Voices

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